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dopaminergic

doom!

Apr 11, 2007 21:45

I have 12 days to write a research paper for my English class (Literary New Orleans) having to do with one or more of the books we read in class:

Chita by Lafcadio Hearn
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Mosquitos by William Faulkner
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The House on Coliseum Street by Shirley Ann Grau
The Moviegoer by Walker ( Read more... )

research paper, ms, phd, english courses hate you, grad school

Comments 6

I can't sleep.... aristarla April 12 2007, 13:40:48 UTC

... so I was in bed thinking of things you could write for your paper ( ... )

Re: I can't sleep.... dopaminergic April 12 2007, 18:48:30 UTC

Oooh, you just gave me a bunch of good ideas! Edna Pontillier, that's the name you can't remember :-)

But, in 7 of 8 of these books (Chita being the exception because there aren't really any important human characters...Nature is the main character and I don't think I can be that abstract in writing about Nature being nonconformist, haha) the major characters ALL combat society, they're all misfits and they don't conform. I could really pick any two of the novels and go with that. But Edna and Louis would make a great comparison. And we actually spent a fair bit of time in class talking about how Joan in the House on Coliseum Street is very much like Edna.

If I had more time to work on this I could maybe do something a lot more creative and with a deeper meaning. Alas.

Which ones haven't you read? And how on earth can you survive without a library card? I'd die if I didn't have a constant supply of new novels to read myself to sleep with every night :-)

pixiedust2217 April 12 2007, 14:26:58 UTC

congrats on the graduating! i may be graduating in may of 2008. sorry you are sick. maybe we can hang out again sometime after finals are over and all.

dopaminergic April 12 2007, 18:52:35 UTC

aw, thanks! That's exciting that you might graduate in another year! Yes, we do need to hang out. It's been too long :-)

pixiedust2217 April 12 2007, 22:13:42 UTC

indeed it has : )

thebedespeaks April 12 2007, 21:41:27 UTC

I've read all those except the first one. Is it any good?

Also: C.o.D. is a depressing tragedy with a few funny scenes sprinkled in it. Anyone who calls it a "comic novel" is wrong, and possibly stupid.